Correspondence.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3984, 5 October 1881, Page 2

Correspondence.

(To tha Editor of the Evening Stab.) Pie,—The question of compulsory vaccination will undoubtedly be a question that the candidates for senatorial honours will require to give no uncertain sound about at the forthcoming election, many being opposed to vaccination after any form, while there arc others who do not object to vaccination provided it bo done with pure lymph. It being a generally recognised theory (hat by arm A to arm vaccination the seeds of disease are introduced into the system. The fact of parents being healthy and a child looking healthy is no guarantee that disease may not be in the system., I hope to see the question well ventilated before the first session of the new Parliament, and our local candidates prepared to give an opinion upon the subject.—l am, &c, A Mabeied Man.

(To the Editor of the Evening Star.) Sic,—l ha*e taken a cursory glance at the proposal emanating from the Mdana? tairi Goldmining Company for working their mine under the co-operative sjsteiri, and at first sight the company appear to have the best of the bargain. It should be sufficient to pay the amount set down as rent for the. battery, instead of alto deducting a percentage for the machinery seeing that this machinery still remains the property of the company. The clause under dead work head is also an injustice, for it leaves the company the sole judge of what' is' dead 1 work. Then the dismissal clause appear to be altogether one-sided. Suppose a *" miner working for six or nine months for half wages, and at the end of that time, wishes to leave, he has no voice in what'is to be considered dead-work,, and if any-, money were due him, lit would be an easy ' matter-make the deduction for new maihi- ' nery, and not even he who take his place y has any share, but the company reaps tke r advantage.—l am, &o;^ .- Miftfesu ; *

The Anglo-Australian in Loudon writes T as follows in the European Mail of August' ; 12:—" Croakers have been rather- too prolific of late with regard- to the colony, of New Zealand and her affairs, but it is but fair to assume that the recent census, with the balancing of the accounts of the colony, trill put many of these worthies to the blush. There is nothing bat-'a tabulated statement to disprove error, and? : f the tabulated statements to which* reference has been made show that New Zealand will compare favourably, -and very favourably, from the point of view of population and resources, with any of the neighbouring colonies. Ido not want to be down upon Victoria, nor to ' blow' too much about New Zealand, but certainly there is the evidence of authoritative statistics to ihow that the increase in population, and in industrial resources generally, has been greater during the last decade in the latter colony than in the former. People on this side naturally note these facts, and in the case of emigrants they give the preference to a colony' where' there is less disturbance from political agitations, and more of reliable and authoritative data in respect of population resource?, and progress. They may-not; know to what cause to attribute a falling L' off'on the one hand and progress, on the? other. They associate progress withp'rosperity, and are anxious to share it. Jhej do not know whether a manifest declension in prosperity is due to the unproiifio character of the soil, to political influences or to bad government. They look at facts , as they are brought to their notice, .rand apt accordingly. Far be it before me to say that Victoria has not the elements of a great future before her, but even her best friends will admit that that-future r has been much shaken by the escapades of her popular politicians during the last seven years, so that as a field for labour it a may be said with rt-uth that that Colony is not so popular among the industrial classes as New Zealand is."

Bishop Covrie in hlkaddress to the Synod speaking on the subject of religious teaching said : "I do not consider one jor two hours on one day of the week, in/the School or elsewhere, sufficient forimpar'ting'to our.;* children a knowledge of those^things which " a Christian ought to know sod believe to his soul's health." Ido nofjconsider it sufficient in the case of,my own children* and can-not thi^^>siirißwent' '^my neighbour's. Wio^ not consider it enough for the r<so'|li»unication of other " knowledge, with wMfh the soul's health of our children is in no way connected; and how can we suppose it to suffice for the more important teaching ?; Tqjudge from their manner of treating the" subject of religious instruction, it would fteem Jthat many Christian parents haw nbf m&,d«vj> their minds that the definite teaching of morality and religioriis as important (not to say more so) as the teaching of arithmetic. 'or geography, or ' even. , of music, or less rained acomplishV ' menta. But,, it should^ not ;be thus with ourselves. And if it is not, let us have the courage of bur opinions; and say plainly, to those'who would represent'^ r us in the Legislature of the country, that we desire our children to. be v taught the Bible, at the only times.at which rast numbers of them can, as a matter of fact,, be taught it, namelyV when? they are assembled for other instruction in the Board Schools of the colony. It irbut toff '- trifle with the matter, to saythktChristian people can teach the truths of "Holy ' Scripture, after school hours, to. as many of the children as prefer that teaching to . \ playing with their fellows. Would those '. who set as high a valiie.on a know* - ledge of arithmetic as we do on that of \* the Bible, be content to treat arithmetic " .as-they tell us to treat, Holy Scripture? Few of >U9, probably, bare any desire to change the present system of national ... education, whereby the rudiments of general knowledge are brought within the reach of the whole population/and the poorest are encouraged to avail themselves of this teaching. All we ask is—that, in addition to such secular instruction as is

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